Christopher Purves

1		The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XVI. Our shibboleth
2		The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": XV. Ghosts conjured from cotton smoke
3		The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": X. Were we quickened from brick-dust
4		The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": VIII. We ask for sustenance and suffrage
5		The Anvil "An Elegy for Peterloo": VII. We walk in communion

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Biography

Bass-baritone Christopher Purves has performed operatic roles from the Baroque to contemporary repertory and has sung choral music at the Proms and other major venues. His background is unusual in that it includes a substantial career in popular music with the doo-wop/jazz vocal group Harvey & the Wallbangers. Purves was born on October 11, 1961, in Cambridge, England. He shared with many other classical performers the background of boy chorister and choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge. He majored in English at King's College and, after graduating, joined Harvey & the...

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